"The Fight for Survival"; Zelik Asher Karpman memoir

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.369

Overview

Description: One memoir, 129 pages, which relates the life of Zelik Asher Karpman, born in Biajkow, Poland. He and his family were sent to the Bialobjeg ghetto in 1941. By the summer of 1941, Zelik was the only member of his immediate family who had not been either killed or deported to a work camp. He managed to escape his forced labor within the ghetto and survived the war in various hiding places in Poland. The memoir is written in the format of an oral history.

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Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Lea Karpman donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at the Tribute to Survivors on Nov. 2, 2003.